Sentences with phrase «bipartisan supermajority»

SB1947 garnered a bipartisan supermajority of 38 votes in the Senate, and the bill will now be sent to Gov. Rauner, who has said he will sign it.

Now, according to Parker, Michael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat and chairman of the Board of Legislators, will continue to mull an override of Astorino's veto which would require a bipartisan supermajority vote of 12 legislators in order to overturn the decision.

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It is perhaps surprising, then, that in July a bipartisan Senate supermajority of 81 — 17 passed a revision of NCLB that keeps the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in grades 3 to 8 and again in high school.